Monday links: This week in stupid beer lists

Imagine a university within a single giant building. Once in a while you’d walk into a room and everything the lecturer said would be eloquent and new to you. But the longer you spent the less often that would be true. Still, you would see newcomers listening with rapt attention, because they’d never heard of foeders. There will always be newcomers.

HERE’S AN EXAMPLE
Sorry, this in depth report from the Wall Street Journal about the “beer vs. liquor rivalry” is behind a paywall. It is an excellent story, with information new to me, but not really that much. If you’ve been following Good Beer Hunting Sightlines and other beer centric sites you already know most of this.

FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE WEEK
South Africa’s first black female brewery owner, Apiwe Nxusani-Mawela, finds a market for her beers . . . in the UK. Here’s an interview with her (from 2019).

INDIE BEER
Could what last week was craft beer be indie beer this week? Steve Body thinks so. Sam Calagione began using the term in the early teens, but nobody seems to remember.

BEER BLOGOSPHERE
Yes. This is what happened to the beer blogosphere. Please read the thread.

Back in 2007, perhaps I would have linked to this story and written a post about what it means to be a “wild-derived” hop variety. Instead I pointed to it on Twitter with no explanation.

WHICH ONE OF THESE LISTS IS DUMBER?
Worst beers in the world.
Secrets big beer companies don’t want you to know (which of course you do know because you don’t live under a rock).

THIS WEEK IN TERROIR
Corn varieties in bourbon. The tweet and the dissertation.

BOBA FETT?
The Hare on the Hill. That name makes it clear at the outset we are talking about a pub, and it’s sure as heck not some place in central Illinois.

IT’S NOT JUST BEER STYLES
The need to categorize that leads to more beer categories styles can be found elsewhere.

ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE